A spokeswoman for technology company Hewlett Packard in Ireland has said discussions with staff across its European operations have been taking place about the company's redundancy programme. She said the company was not in a position at the moment to state how many jobs would be lost from its 4,000 strong Irish workforce.
The spokeswoman said that although the net result of job losses in Ireland would be minimal, there would be some redundancies.
The company says it will make a further announcement on or around September 19, disclosing where redundancies would take place across its European workforce.
Earlier this year HP announced it was cutting 14,500 employees worldwide, equivalent to one tenth of its workforce. Earlier today a French trade union said it had been told 6,000 of those redundancies would be in Europe.
HP in Ireland has manufacturing, sales and research and development activities in Leixlip, Galway, Dublin and Belfast.
Marc-Antoine Marcantoni, European co-ordinator for the Federation of European Materials Societies and a member of the French trade union CFTC, said today that half the 6,000 posts to be eliminated in Europe are in Germany, Britain and France. The remaining 8,500 jobs slated to be cut are in North America, Asia and the Middle East, he added.
